Chyron has appointed David Delaplain as a U.S. sales executive. Delaplain joins Chyron with more than 25 years of industry experience, including an extensive stint at Vizrt. Initially, Delaplain is focused on business development across the U.S. for Chyron, known for its broadcast titling and graphics systems. Chyron is a brand of ChyronHego, headquartered in NY with operations in 11 countries…..
BB&S Lighting, maker of advanced LED studio lighting, has brought Tom Yuhas aboard as sales manager serving the Americas. With more than 10 years experience in the LED lighting market, Yuhas has had worked closely with clients in broadcasting and film production as well as architectural, corporate, government and house of worship arenas. During his tenures at Litepanels and Cineo Lighting, he worked closely with lighting designers and system integrators to provide and design cutting-edge solutions for organizations including MOMA, Voice of America and State Farm, as well as broadcast studios for CBS, ABC, NBC, Telemundo and more….
EditShare, a tech firm that enables collaborative media workflows on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid configuration. has added Mike Wright as VP for sales across the Americas, Jodynne Wood as VP of business development in the region, and Gregory Cash to lead the regional pre-sales team. Wright has held sr. sales roles at Telestream, Tektronix and Grass Valley. Wood draws on her experience at GrayMeta and Ci-Sony Media Cloud Services to build strong and trusted relationships with her clients. Cash has experience on both sides of the market with spells at NBC Universal and Rohde & Schwarz before making the move to EditShare. His new role in managing pre-sales for the Americas region means he will focus on demonstrations and proof of concepts, managing the relationship between EditShare and its users to ensure that the requirements are absolutely clearly defined with key metrics in place….
Review: Malcolm Washington Makes His Feature Directing Debut With “The Piano Lesson”
An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm Washington follows in his father Denzel Washington's footsteps in helping to bring the entirety of The Pittsburgh Cycle — a series of 10 plays — to the screen.
Malcolm Washington did not start from scratch in his accomplished feature filmmaking debut. He enlisted much of the cast from the recent Broadway revival with Samuel L. Jackson (Doaker Charles), his brother, John David Washington (Boy Willie), Ray Fisher (Lymon) and Michael Potts (Whining Boy). Berniece, played by Danielle Brooks in the play, is now beautifully portrayed by Danielle Deadwyler. With such rich material and a cast for whom it's second nature, it would be hard, one imagines, to go wrong. Jackson's own history with the play goes back to its original run in 1987 when he was Boy Willie.
It's not the simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room. In fact, this adaptation, which Washington co-wrote with "Mudbound" screenwriter Virgil Williams, goes beyond Wilson's text and shows us the past and the origins of the intricately engraved piano that's central to all the fuss. It even opens on a big, action-filled set piece in 1911, during which the piano is stolen from a white family's home. Another fleshes out Doaker's monologue in which he explains to the uninitiated, Fisher's Lymon, and the audience, the tortured history of the thing. While it might have been nice to keep the camera on Jackson, such a great, grounding presence throughout, the good news is that he really makes... Read More